Full fashioned stocking



Patented Oct. 11, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HUGO RENEE-RICH, OI WYOIISSING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB '10 BERKSHIRE KNITTING HILLS, F WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA.

FULL FASHIONED BTOCIDTG Application am April 21, 1921. Serial No. 581,700.

My invention relates to full-fashioned stockings, and particularly to the providing of the welt or upper portions thereof with specially knitted areas adapted for special purposes as for attachment of garters; and it consists in knitting said areas integrally but of different thread for the body of the fabric,

and with split-seam sutures uniting same to the latter, as fully set forth in connection with the accompanying drawing and clearly defined in the subjoined claims.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of a seamed full-fashioned stocking; showing the specially knitted areas as registeringl formed in both the inner and outer folds of the welt and also in the single fabric below the same,both at the front and rear thereof, with the rear areas made up of oposite-edge portions of the flat fabric united y the longitudinal seaming; saidare'as being shown as particularly adapted for the attachment of garters.

Fig. 2 is a. diagrammatic sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, indicating the seamed areas in the adjacent inner and outer folds of the welt and the split-seam connection thereof to the body of thefabric.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a corner portion of one of the areas, indicating known split-seam suture connections to the body fabric.

Fig. 1 indicates the leg portion a of a fullfashioned stocking, with the usual sewed seam b at the rear extending through the doubled welt portion a.

Full fashioned stockings as indicated, have heretofore been provided with reinforced areas adapted for special service such as the attachment of garters, by knitting into the main fabric a separate reenforcing thread; and ornamental areas have been also produced by knitted-in or embroidery threads, with clock work or the like provided in some cases by substitution of a different thread for the main body thread.

My improved construction as illustrated provides integrally knitted separate-thread insert areas 10, which are joined to the simultaneously knitted body of the fabric by insert-enclosing split-seam sutures such as illustrated in enlarged view Fig. 3 of the insert corner portion X indicated in Figs. 1 and 2; said insert 10 being shown in the enlarged diagrammatic view Fig. 2 as formed in the outer fold of the welt 0, with a half portion thereof on each side of the seam b, and in registering relation to a like unseamed insert 10 knitted into the inner welt fold c. It will be understood that these registering inserts in the outer and inner folds of the welt cooperate as shown to provide doubled insert areas for the attachment of a garter, and that-the registering inserts 10 provided at the front of the welt differ only from the rear inserts in that the subsequently seamedtogether half portions of the latter are separatel knitted at the edges of the flat fabric. This 'fierent formin of the front and rear inserts obviously applies also to the like inserts indicated in Fig. 1 as being provided front and rear, in the single fabric below the welt, and adapted to provide additional garter-attaching areas.

The split-seam sutures which connect the integrall knitted inserts with the main portiona o the stocking are formed by interloopings in adjacent wales, of the body thread (1 with the insert thread e, as indicated in preferred known manner in Fig. 3, thus providing ornamental vertical sutures as indicated at f in' the several figures; while ordinary interloopi'ngs of such united threads to the usual loops g of the courses of knitting respectively above and below the insert, complete the split-seam suture connection of each insert to the body of the fabric. Stockings thus formed with integrally knitted separatethread areas of desired size and shape and each marginally united by enclosing splitseam sutures to the main fabric, provide an improved product as to serviceability and attractive appearance.

- What I claim is:

1. A full fashioned stocking having an integrally knitted separate-thread insert in the body portion thereof which is joined to the latter by insert-enclosing split-seam sutures; said insert comprisin separated portions knitted adjacent the e ges of the flat fabric 831d united by longitudinalseaming of said e es.

2. A full fashioned stocking having a Inrality of garter-engaging separate-three. inserts inte ally knitted with the upper portion of t e stocking at different distances from the top edge of the finished stocking and each joined to the body portion of the stocking by insert-enclosing split seam sutures.

3. A full-fashioned stocking having integrally knitted separate-thread inserts in the body portion thereof at difi'erent distances from the top edge of the finished stocking, said inserts being joined to the body portions by insert-enclosing split-seam sutures and comprising separated portions knitted adjacent the edges of the flat fabric and united by longitudinal seaming of said edges.

In testimony whereofI a'ifix my signature.

' HUG HEMMERICH. 

